Patrick Taylor Web Design
Patrick Taylor Web Design is a small web design and development consultancy working from Bolton in the UK. I specialise in hand-crafted custom web solutions for individuals, small businesses, and other bodies to create an elegant, effective, and standards-compliant presence on the World Wide Web. The service is also characterised by attention to detail, helpfulness, quick response, and affordability.
Websites for small businesses
If you're a small business, goods or services that you provide are probably being sold through competitors who are doing more than you to improve their online presence. Nobody wants to waste money on ineffective websites that bring little or no return, but an effective website can be better value for money than other forms of marketing.
Patrick Taylor Web Design will not only maximise the number of your website's visitors from search engines but will also make your business look better, adding to its success. Get in touch to see how I can help you succeed online.
Rebuilding websites to Web Standards
My services include rebuilding web standards non-compliant websites so that they become fully web standards compliant, sematically correct (with fully valid code to HTML or XHTML), more accessible, and more search-engine-friendly. I am usually able to create an exact replica of any web page that mis-uses tables into one that uses CSS positioning, logically ordered content, and optimised page headings.
WordPress custom theme designer
This website is built almost entirely with WordPress, a 'state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability'. Whilst WordPress is the underlying 'engine' that powers the site, the appearance of all the pages is determined by a custom theme I have created myself from the default theme.
WordPress is open source, free of charge, and widely supported by an extensive, expert development community. I offer freelance installation of WordPress together with the development of XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid custom themes with 1, 2, or 3 columns.
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I've just started writting my own theme now I am looking at what you did with default and I am not so sure anymore. Stunning.
Thanks for the comment. After a while, with the changes, it starts to become one's own theme. Good luck.
Your sense of space, color, angle, and form needs no challenge, only confirmation. I love the timeless design items you have whittled down to just this list. I might have come up with a few different choices myself, but can't argue with any you made.
Your website designs are clean, enticing, functional, highly organized, and feel professional but in an inviting way, not intimidating at all. Bottom line is you have a wonderful sense of what looks good but works well also. I compliment and applaud your fine work.
Take good care – Russell Scott, Austin, TX
Hi! Perhaps the name rings bells in the deep recesses of your mind! Roger M has just told me of your new(?) venture. I am still in practice on my own. Do you think that I ought to have a website as I am 73 and coming to the end of my professional career – please advise! James
James! Nice to hear from you after 30 years. Everybody ought to have a website. Someone who is still professionally active at the wise age of 73
should have a lot to offer on the World Stage.
And with a WordPress blog, it's a breeze.
[Added later: professionally active at 73 is quite something, especially on one's own]
Hi Patrick,
Stunning. I'm really impressed by the lean, elegant layout of your page/blog. My first attempt was to identify if that 'theme' is a standard wordpress kinda thing, and therefore I've cruised the whole page. Now that I'd to realize that you set it up on your own gives me that warm cosy feeling of being jelaous.
Well done Sir!
PS: I've checked the below advise 'About adding a Smiley
', yes to add a final Smiley!! Unfortunately that hasn't opened a separate window, so my whole statement here was gone after pressing the BACK-button. 